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Monday, March 10, 2008

Eliot Mess

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Another pol with his pants down. Of course, this time it's a Democrat, and a once-promising one (though I gather that his tenure as gove...
Friday, March 7, 2008

Black Friday

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I canceled delivery of the San Jose Mercury News today. It's no longer the newspaper I worked for. It's no longer a paper I need, or...
Thursday, March 6, 2008

The Merc in the Murk

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Michael Bazeley , a former Mercury News staffer, has a perceptive comment on the state of the newspaper. Tomorrow is Black Friday, when anot...

So Many Thoughts, So Little Time

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Tuesday's primary turned out to be the Groundhog Day primary: Obama saw his shadow, which means seven more weeks of campaigning. McCain ...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

It Isn't Over Till the Lady in the Yellow Pantsuit Sings

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Yeah, I kinda wish Hillary would drop out gracefully, but mainly because I'm getting bored with this endless string of primaries. Certai...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

It's a Joke. It's Only a Joke. Right? Isn't It?

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Peace Be With You

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On his blog yesterday, Kevin Drum commented on a British study that questions the efficacy of antidepressants, particularly SSRIs such as fl...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Oscar Week cont'd: Forty Years Ago

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I was maybe more in tune with the day's big hoopla with this review that ran in the Washington Post today: PICTURES AT A REVOLUTION: F...

Slick Willie

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A busy Sunday. First, the Dallas Morning News published my review of Willie Brown's new memoir: BASIC BROWN: My Life and Our Time...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

The Techie and the Detective

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Mark Coggins is a technophile whose hero is a technophobe -- San Francisco private eye August Riordan, who has appeared in four novels (so f...